The Weeping Palm Tree edition by Gideon Dashe Monday Dakulak Religion Spirituality eBooks
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It is an African fictional story that revealed the power of light over darkness in a contest that took place during the christening ceremony of a destiny child that will turn around the fortune of his community. The setting centers around a blind pastor, Pastor Adamu Katnyam, who was trained by European missionaries in the 1950s. It also motivates the rural settlers to leave palm wine tapping and face Western education because it is the way forward for a typical rural and urban settler.
This book also gives a background knowledge of a community that have never been written about in any formal journal.
The Weeping Palm Tree edition by Gideon Dashe Monday Dakulak Religion Spirituality eBooks
The care and nurturing of trees, specifically palm trees, provides an apt analogy for the care and nurturing of young people in this independently published novel. Set in a small Mhiship (Chip) village in Nigeria, this short (50-page) parable recounts the story of Borlong Paul Makton who is selected by God in a vision of the blind minister, Adamu Katnyam, to save his people--through eduction--from, we discover, ignorance, greed, and pagan worshippers. It is a gripping, lyrically written tale--one that I easily imagined being related on a cool evening around an African après safari fire. Quite reminiscent of Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, who also espoused the necessity of a proper education for native village children. Which is exactly the major theme of Dashe's novel.One is never too old to pick up a salient fact or two. And, certainly, one is never too young to discover the beyond world of books. Reading this book was I admit this was an atypical branching out from my normal reading boundaries.Yet, I discovered what it is like to live in a small West African village where a primary source of income is the harvesting and selling of bommi (am-ting)--wine made from palm tree sap. Where, for the lack of a proper education and the foresight of forest planning and replenishment, the trees eventually die out. And so does the wine. Borlong fulfills his destiny by becoming, through his education promulgated from the efforts of Christian missionaries and the conversion of his father to the ministry, the village savior.
Dashe, a pharmacist by profession, is a gifted storyteller. His writing is exuberantly flowery, tinged with common word usage and grammatical errors that are typical of one whose second or, perhaps, third language is English. But this only adds to the essential charm of The Weeping Palm Tree, augmenting its major themes and analogies. A devout Christian, Dashe also liberally infuses his writing with religious dogma and tenets upon which he bases the whole concept of education and enlightenment. The author, in this regard, does a bit more preaching than I thought necessary.
However, what I liked best were Dashe's true-to-life characters. Some were quite serious; a few were very humorous; all of them, based upon people his life, were intensely interesting. And, more importantly, as I went out on a limb, as it were, to read this little novel, I learned quite a lot about a culture and way of life that was previously totally alien to me. But now, I can readily imagine being in the small village, participating in an aram, perhaps sipping a bit of bommi or mos...
...learning more about and becoming more familiar with the language and ways of the newly enlightened Chip.
This review was written by Literary Blogger, June J. McInerney, who is also the author of "The Adventures of Oreigh Ogglefont".
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The Weeping Palm Tree edition by Gideon Dashe Monday Dakulak Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
REVIEW SUMMARY A saga of an African tribe in transformation, due to the influence of Christianity and Western Education on a hitherto indigenous pagan community, the Mhiship, in Plateau State, Nigeria.
REVIEW IN DETAIL The fiction story corelates very well with the recent history (from the 1920s onwards) of the Mhiship tribe and the other half-a-dozen tribes of the Chadic Language group east of Jos in Plateau State Nigeria. The author, however, adds a nice twist by highlighting the Palm Tree. It is probably because the tree distinguishes the Mhiship tribe from the neighbouring ones who are not located close to palm trees growing in the wild in such signifant numbers.
The novel has a happy end for many characters mentioned in the book, including Borlong, who was born in Chapter 2 at the height of the conflict and eventual triumph of Christianity cum Western Education (or Mordernity) over traditional religion and illiteracy. In this part of Nigeria, converting to Christianity almost always implied accepting Western Education, and vice versa. This is rooted in the fact that during British colonial rule, the early schools were run by British missionaries who made no distinction between proselytizing and educating.
The entry of Borlong into the scene nearly reached a messianic dimension, where Pastor Adamu Katnyam's role resembles that of the biblical John the Baptist. Borlong (meaning the annointed one) gradually took center stage as the reader progresses through the book.
The Author hardly left out any opportunity to intimate the reader about the People called the Mhiship - their culture, language, environment and, fair enough, their Palm Tree.
It will appear as if flashpoints and conflicts in the book got resolved rather (shall I say, too) harmoniously - without spilling human blood, considering the enormous change which this folk had to undergo. Nonetheless, there is enough stuff to often tweak the reader's emotions befitting a great novel like this one. Prio to the arrivial of the Europeans, the Mhiship and sister tribes had successfully been resisting Islamic influence from surrounding regions of Northern Nigeria for a few centuries. This transformtion is therefore dramatic.
My take on this book is that, in the not very distant future, it is going to be very popular and will be a must-read source of inspiration for students in schools within and outside Mhiship. Therefore the Editors need to once more proof-read the book and rid it of a few grammatic mistakes (for example, on page 46, it should read "It is high time you came ..." not "come"; on page 59, the idiom should read,"...follow his aspiration to the letter..." not "latter").
Three tacit lessons for the young Mhiship (or African) reader Strive to live in peace with your non-tribal neighbours and settlers. While exploiting the environment for its resources (for Mhiship, it's the forest for the Palm produce), do so in a sustainable manner. Thirdly, solidly embrace Education, striving through learning to be better at what you do.
Other casual readers, as well as scholars of History and Anthropology, will gain deep insight into the changes taking place within tribes of the so-called Middlebelt region of Nigeria.
The core of the book contains 13 Chapters spanning 80 pages. It is followed by a glossary of 96 Mhiship tribal terms and expressions used earlier, and also, a geographical and social description of the Mhiship tribe.
The care and nurturing of trees, specifically palm trees, provides an apt analogy for the care and nurturing of young people in this independently published novel. Set in a small Mhiship (Chip) village in Nigeria, this short (50-page) parable recounts the story of Borlong Paul Makton who is selected by God in a vision of the blind minister, Adamu Katnyam, to save his people--through eduction--from, we discover, ignorance, greed, and pagan worshippers. It is a gripping, lyrically written tale--one that I easily imagined being related on a cool evening around an African après safari fire. Quite reminiscent of Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, who also espoused the necessity of a proper education for native village children. Which is exactly the major theme of Dashe's novel.
One is never too old to pick up a salient fact or two. And, certainly, one is never too young to discover the beyond world of books. Reading this book was I admit this was an atypical branching out from my normal reading boundaries.Yet, I discovered what it is like to live in a small West African village where a primary source of income is the harvesting and selling of bommi (am-ting)--wine made from palm tree sap. Where, for the lack of a proper education and the foresight of forest planning and replenishment, the trees eventually die out. And so does the wine. Borlong fulfills his destiny by becoming, through his education promulgated from the efforts of Christian missionaries and the conversion of his father to the ministry, the village savior.
Dashe, a pharmacist by profession, is a gifted storyteller. His writing is exuberantly flowery, tinged with common word usage and grammatical errors that are typical of one whose second or, perhaps, third language is English. But this only adds to the essential charm of The Weeping Palm Tree, augmenting its major themes and analogies. A devout Christian, Dashe also liberally infuses his writing with religious dogma and tenets upon which he bases the whole concept of education and enlightenment. The author, in this regard, does a bit more preaching than I thought necessary.
However, what I liked best were Dashe's true-to-life characters. Some were quite serious; a few were very humorous; all of them, based upon people his life, were intensely interesting. And, more importantly, as I went out on a limb, as it were, to read this little novel, I learned quite a lot about a culture and way of life that was previously totally alien to me. But now, I can readily imagine being in the small village, participating in an aram, perhaps sipping a bit of bommi or mos...
...learning more about and becoming more familiar with the language and ways of the newly enlightened Chip.
This review was written by Literary Blogger, June J. McInerney, who is also the author of "The Adventures of Oreigh Ogglefont".
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